Bonshaw Hills trail system already popular before completion

P.E.I.'s Bonshaw Hills trail system is already so popular people are hiking and biking before crews have been able to finish their work.

The Bonshaw Hills Public Lands Subcommittee, which is in charge of the project, said extra temporary signs have been installed to warn people the trails aren't finished because the system is already being used more than expected.

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"Once you get back in there you can get disoriented fairly quickly and because there are so many ... trail loops, sometimes it's difficult to figure out where you came from and how to get back to the car," said Megan Harris, subcommittee chair and executive director of Island Nature Trust.

While the committee is pleased people are using the 10 kilometres of trails currently available, there are still about 12 kilometres still to be cut.

The project came about after the province acquired land for the controversial Plan B Trans-Canada Highway realignment in the area.